This is a letter from Jean to everyone. I doubt many people read this, but anyway, I’m just doing my part. Jean said I should do my best to ask people to vote for her so that I can get rid of her for a week (if she wins the first prize trip to Dreamworks studio in USA).

Hello,

Recently, a few friends and I took part in a total-defence animation competition for students across Singapore (N.E.mation! IV). This is our second year taking part in this competition (and making it to the top 10 teams too), and now the clips are open to public voting. We spent our entire September holidays last year refining the story and pitching it to the judges in order to get through to the top 10, and subsequently spent 3 weeks during our December holidays producing the clip.

Our story is basically about how the scale of care revolving around Singaporeans has grown over the years - from individual, all the way to national; hence the title “Carevolution”. It also shows the importance of care in the growth of our nation, through important historical events such as the “Bukit Ho Swee fire” and “SARS pandemic”. We used both rotoscoping (digitally tracing over recorded video footages frame-by-frame) and stop-motion animation techniques in Carevolution. All the buildings, backgrounds, characters and things you see in the animation were measured, drawn, cut, constructed and glued together by us, and we’re very proud of what we’ve accomplished. Even the characters were first filmed, then loaded into the computer, every frame digitally traced out, printed, pasted, cut out, and then placed in front of our hand-made backgrounds to be captured.

My friends and I would really appreciate you could support us by viewing our clip (http://nemation.sg/), and voting for C4. Voting ends on 1 Feb, so please hurry! Help spread the word, and get your family and friends to vote for us too, because (cliché as it may sound) every vote does make a difference, especially when 50% of the final results will be determined through public voting. The other 50% of the results will be determined by the judges. There are also attractive prizes such as Acer netbooks and Nintendo Wii’s to be won, simply by voting.

Steps to voting:
1. Go to (http://nemation.sg/).
2. View the Top 10 clips on the homepage (paying attention to C4...)
3. Select 3 of the 10 clips which you think deserve to win.
4. Click "Vote Now!".
5. Fill in your particulars and click "Vote Now!" again.
Team: Spoof (C4)
Title: Carevolution

Alternatively, you could view them on YouTube (http://3.ly/2yw7).

Also, if you’re interested in how we actually produced this piece of art, you can join us at our Facebook fanpage (http://3.ly/4Yz). We have uploaded videos and photos of our work, and we hope that by viewing them and getting a taste of what went on Behind-The-Scenes, you’ll be able to better appreciate our animation.
A huge amount of hard work has been put into this animation, and we really hope you’ll enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed producing it.

Thanks,

Jean Chan
Team Spoof (Methodist Girls’ School)